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Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase
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◊ 2018-06-04 05:21 |
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◊ 2018-06-04 08:31 |
Ford Model A? |
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◊ 2018-06-04 08:33 |
No. |
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◊ 2018-06-04 12:42 |
Why? |
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◊ 2018-06-04 13:08 |
It's too wide, no transverse springs, wrong rear dimensions, spoke wheels and not wires... The grille you are seeing is quite clearly a mockup. |
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◊ 2018-06-04 16:34 |
Having looked more closely at the rear view, I quite agree. Longitudinal springs are apparent, but I had already discounted the cooking foil grille as a mock up. Since I know very little of American cars, there my ideas run out. |
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◊ 2018-06-04 17:17 |
That single small oval window should be a clue. Buick had such a roof in the early Twenties but the position of the headlights doesn't look right for one of them. -- Last edit: 2018-06-04 18:37:09 |
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◊ 2018-06-04 22:27 |
Too small to be a Buick. It is a low price American from the early 1920s. I think it is a Durant Star, the model that was sold in Commonwealth countries as a Rugby. |
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◊ 2018-06-05 14:45 |
@Enzie: I had already thought of something of that nature. Was suspecting a mid-priced car - Overland. The US origin is undeniable. -- Last edit: 2018-06-05 14:46:07 |
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◊ 2018-06-05 22:27 |
The Light Four Overland of that era has a distinctive 'semi-transverse' front spring. The car here has conventional semi elliptics. For the same reason it is not a Chev 490 either, as they have quarter elliptic front springs, at least up to 1923. -- Last edit: 2018-06-05 22:28:38 |
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◊ 2018-06-11 22:03 |
It is a Dixie Flyer - built in Louisville Kentucky. I was looking for some information re identifying another car and found this gallery of photos - which includes an Alvis Firefly of all things. https://historiclouisville.weebly.com/ky-wagondixie-flyer.html |
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◊ 2018-06-11 22:08 |
A Dixie Flyer in Iceland - it sounds kind of lost there. |
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◊ 2018-06-11 22:41 |
So that radiator grille is kosher - it really looked like some form of filmist mock-up. I have looked up the Dixie Flyer HS-50 in Dyke’s Automobile Encyclopedia 12th edition of 1920. It had 112” Wheelbase and a 4 cylinder Herschel-Spillman engine, and appears to have been a typical USA-type assembled car using proprietary engine, gear set, axles and steering, with a Willard battery, Dyneto electrics and Connecticut ignition. It cost $1465, presumably f.o.b. factory and ex taxes. A Ford T with similar 5 seat touring coachwork cost $525 at the time, a Chevrolet 4-90 $735 and a Dodge Brothers 4 cylinder car was $1085, so the Dixie looked an expensive little beast in its class with no particularly outstanding features, which probably led to its disappearance. -- Last edit: 2018-06-11 23:56:00 |
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